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TIL that Turkey Tail Mushrooms are an effective cancer treatment in conjunction with traditional cancer therapy

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Z8oOv TIL that Syrian golden hamsters are natural alcoholics; in the summer they store fruits and by the time winter comes, the fruits will have fermented into alcohol. They also prefer alcohol over water.
rRe4w TIL of Mount Kemukus, a hilltop shrine in Central Java where people go to have sex with other pilgrims who are total strangers, to bring goodluck.
GDrE TIL that African Elephants have 4-6 sets of teeth in their lifetime, and when the last set wears down, they starve to death
R5Br9 TIL that during James Cook’s first Pacific voyage, the crew brought a Polynesian navigator on board. He produced a chart of 130 islands he knew across a 2,000 mile radius, including 74 of their names and many of their distances, sizes, chiefs, and foods they produced.
4o75 TIL Lego originally made wooden toys